Víðirhólar

9. Víðirhólar
N65°14.09-W15°22.46

Situated about 5,5 km north of Háls, this farm was started on Hákonarstaðir land in 1846, at an elevation of 540 m. At first, the farm was named Víðirdalssel, and it was built by Rósa Jónsdóttir, whose ancestors had lived in Öxnadalur valley, and Vigfús Jósafatsson, who came from Hamrar in the Reykjadalur district. Excepting a few years after the 1875 ashfall, people lived at this farm until 1905, but then found erosion related to the ash to have depleted the land so much as to make farming impossible. The sheep corral less than a kilometre to the south (N65°13.63 – W15°22.71) was built of dry stones in 1900 and used for over 20 years.